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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
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Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
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As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.
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The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
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Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
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Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.
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Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.
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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.
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Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!
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No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
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The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
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